Ride with confidence look drivers staight in the eye at junctions,trafific ligts etc. I always ride at least a foot from the edge of the road, hate to say it but but you've got to fight for your piece of tar heaven if you're willing to be pushed off the road that's what they'll do, no one wants to kill you, so stand up for your right to be out there and if they treat badly i always let them know it, had some very good educational talks with the ill educated drivers of the world. In some 30+ years of rideing I've been knocked of my bike twice in hundreds of thousands of miles of rideing and racing. The best repost to the thick idiots of the world is "do you have kids or want kids? would you expext them to be treated this way when they're riding there bicycles?" then smile nicely at them say "have a great rest of your day" and ride off. tends to make them think just a little. I've also heard just about every gripe that drivers have then I remind them that I own a car that's nicer than theirs and that it doesn't give me a God given right to drive like a w+$%*r. Sorry but no more mister nice guy they need to learn that they don't own the world I live in.